A Study On The Several Questions Of Wuhan Cotton Textile In The Period Of Republic Of China From 1915 To 1938

This dissertation studied Wuhan cotton textile, discussed several questions of capital, technology, management and market in the development and analyzed the "Wuhan mode" based on it.The first chapter investigated the source and operating conditions of capital of Wuhan cotton textile. At the begining of Wuhan cotton textile in the Republic of China, most of the capital was from the local businessmen’s investment. When supplying capital, the speculative and the uncertainty of business capital affected cotton textile’s development track. The investment of Coastal industrial capital in hinterland strengthened the relations between Wuhan cotton textile and coastal industry,and the the monetary and financial system made up of the loacal bank of Wuhan, old style Chinese private bank also produced far-reaching influence for the development of cotton textile. Yuhua cotton mill, the Fourth cotton mill of Shenxin, First textile mill and Zhenhuan cotton mill had different financial method in the process of development, which were about the relations between business capital and industrial capital, private capital and borrowed capital, capital accumulation and distribution, determining the future trend of development.The second chapter expounded Wuhan cotton textile’s technology import, internalization and achievement.The ways of technology import, were mainly through purchasing agent of foreign firm in China, sending people abroad to investigate and promote sell of foreign factory. The internalization of technology considered the introducing technology comply with the social environment, textile mill development, production materials, enterprise soft power, and focused on the consolidation of internalization results. Due to the differences of internal components in different textile mills, they had their own characteristics in introduction, internalization and creation of technology. Compared with Shanghai and other industrial cities, due to a lack of effective technology import and internal mechanism, the technology use of Wuhan cotton textile had some development, but obviously underpowered that effect is not high.The third chapter discussed the evolution and specific implementation of western-style scientific management and governance structure in Wuhan cotton textile. In the internal management system, Wuhan cotton textile experienced praetorium type manegment in later Qing Dynasty, foreman system of the early Republic of China, and gradually transformed into western management system the core of which were professional manager and engineer. Both the two systems played an important role in the development of Wuhan cotton textile in Republic of China, and made the trsanformation complex, showing dualistic structure coexistence old and new management for a long time. Wuhan cotton textile choosed corresponding management model depended on its situation, and made progress in the manager’s regulation, production management, workers management, salary management and accounting system reform. In promoting scientific management, the Fourth cotton mill of Shenxin formed its own unique welfare system and enterprise culture. In external management structure, with the introduction of corporations, Wuhan cotton textile chosed Co., LTD and infinite governance structure according to their level of development and the size of the enterprises.The fourth chapter inspected the market competition between Wuhan textile product and coastal products in local market, and the market development in central and west regions of China. Wuhan textile products in essence belonged to Second Imported Substitution, when input market, obviously brought about impact on traditional business model, which sped up the dissipation of natural economy around Wuhan area and led to the upgrade of trade route, and once replace the coastal industrial products in Wuhan market, and by the Yangtze river,PingHan and YueHan railway, the new commercial network and commercial structural formed gradually.In market development, Wuhan’s cotton textile products must competed with foreign goods, at the same time, the product of Shanghai, Wuxi and other coastal cities also came into inland to compet for the limited market, and formed Market-Westward, which was market -oriented, because of the survival development needs, the active choice in economic logic, and different from the Political-Westward in 1938 due to the Anti-Japanese-War.To sum up, Wuhan cotton textile had development side, however, because of its own defects,the development was inadequate. As a whole, there was moer that was development than undevelopment, which promoted the pace of the industrialization of Wuhan, and had far-reaching influence on transformation for Wuhan from traditional commercial center in hinterland to a morden city with commercial and industry.